2019-01-25 Cornell LD4P2 Meeting notes

Date: 25 Jan 2019

Attendees: 

Regrets:  

Zoom (for 1/25 only): https://cornell.zoom.us/j/858024292

Agenda & Notes

Review actions from 2019-01-18 Cornell LD4P2 Meeting notes

• Steven Folsom keep track of cataloger perspective on work to support LC Names is in QA with context 
  
  • 2019-01-11 - Dave had added LCNAF to D.A.V.E. and Steven is working on the context needed for the search lookup UI. 
  • 2019-01-18 - Some discussion of language tags and two actions below
• E. Lynette Rayle priority is completion of https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/27
  • 2019-01-18 going well and could (if tailwind) complete next week else will be 3 weeks because of other commitments
• E. Lynette Rayle  (from discussion of LC Names in QA with context) 1) investigate & document algorithm for selection of languages with label and/or no label
• E. Lynette Rayle  (from discussion of LC Names in QA with context) 2) fix known bug in returning label in case with no language match (need to check whether it still exists after refactor)
• Jason Kovari going thru CUL's D&A Jira (next week or so): https://culibrary.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=19&projectKey=DISCOVERYACCESS&view=planning.nodetail
  • 2019-01-18 - Jason now has access to the D&A Jira
• Huda Khan is working on whether usability work on catalogs has been done internally as well as externally to CUL. Code4Lib journal and another has some details
  • Have been looking at usability work and literature. Found some older material on Blacklight tests (when facets new), not so much after that. Some log analysis on SearchWorks. Also looking at linked data browser tools. Interesting dissertation from a few years ago on LD exploratory search. See discovery folder, literature exploration NOTES DOCUMENT, initial discussions with Tim regarding knowledge panels etc. , and also Stanford NOTES FROM LAST SUMMER
• Huda Khan will set up another meeting with Jason, Tim, and Astrid  to plan way forward with the Discovery work plan. 
• Steven Folsom will ping cohort to find "owner" for LCMPT and source of accuracy tests https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/13
  • 2019-01-18 Pending Nancy Lorimer response
  • 2019-01-25 Steven followed up via email.
• E. Lynette Rayle will work with Dave on Video Game Genre Forms request https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/42 – pending work from Dave
  • 2019-01-18 Still in Dave's camp
• Steven Folsomwill follow up with Christine and Marc about what entities we want to support lookup from wikidata
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit#gid=965082913
  • Steven will add comments to https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/15 to make specific connection to the spreadsheet describing entity searches requested for Wikidata
  • 2019-01-25 - Steven spoke with Marc and Christine this week and they are doing research on a general lookup of Wikidata entities with a nod to the Wikidata fingerprints (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel/Primer); they will be adding comments and links to Issue #15 soon.
• Steven Folsomto follow up with Dave via an issue about support for the two entity searches for LCGFT as outlined in the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit#gid=696491968– it seems that the current sub-authority support was a guess based on parallels with LCNAF from before the work to derive specific requirements and document in the spreadsheet
  • 2019-01-25 Lynette facilitated a conversation with Dave, seems like he's on the right track. Issue can be tracked here: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/50
• Huda Khan has created local fork of Sinopia editor and  see what it takes to get front-end to do things to get them in-line with what we want to see... without affecting Stanford's development work
  • Have started looking at code and looking at use of React. Expect to work on this at beginning February
  • Steven would like to try uploading a profile
• E. Lynette Rayle to work with Dave on QA/DAVE presentation at LD4 Conference
  • 2019-01-18 Going to do this with Dave, working on it this pm
• Huda Khan to discuss with Astrid possibility of UX presentation
  • 2019-01-18  Have discussed with Astrid. Abstract "yes" so far
• Jason Kovariwill discuss in LTS whether there a URIs from Share-VDE data that are useful and might be added to catalog
  • 2019-01-18 Unknown status
• ALL - discuss Cornell goals at LD4 meeting and who might go
• Issues: https://waffle.io/LD4P/ld4p2-cornell

Status updates and planning

• Discovery developer search
• Authority Lookups for Sinopia (Production QA instance: https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues/)
• Prep for Cataloging Sinatra and other 45's (Discogs data, https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ADiscogs)
• Enhanced Discovery
  • See notes regarding usability work above.  Astrid is conducting user interviews with researchers to understand discovery needs and has completed three of these so far.
    • Preliminary impressions: 2 areas: (a) Shorter-term Blacklight contributions: knowledge panel design and integration while bringing in linked data, schema output, and design and implementation of connecting to/integrating authorities (but linked data versions?), (b) design and exploration around how linked data could be integrated into discovery such as semantic search (which may involve interesting alignments between info modeled in ontologies and traditional library search and may even intersect with machine learning/NLP options), possibly resulting in prototypes that address particular user concerns (e.g. identifying related items, demonstrating more clearly what information is actually present and related within the search space, etc.).  Based on literature/existing work, appears there are definite improvements to the search experience that are possible and preferred.  Also very related to user experience: relevance and search algorithms. 
• Travel and meetings
  
  • LD4P2 Cornell Meeting Attendances
  • LD4 conference
    • ANYONE who wants to speak must submit a presentation and there are no guarantees that partner submissions will be accepted
    • Possible discussions around wikidata
  • LD4P June 2019 Meeting: Agenda formation: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/p4B7Bg
• Next meetings:
  • Lynette will be out for 1 Feb meeting (Samvera Valkyrization meeting)